The DMS (Dealer Management System) is on the verge of radical changes if not outright extinction. Bold statement? Yes. Is it true? Consider this quote from none other than Sandy Schwartz, President of Cox Automotive:

“... a DMS in the future "should be a smaller unit" within a dealership, he added, "not this big anchor." “And any such DMS should be open source -- something that integrates easily with whatever other products a dealer wants to use”